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April 22, 2014 12:46 pm PDT
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Speckles on the Sun larger thanAlaska
The surface of the Sun is covered in what scientists call "granules" — upwellings of plasma, which are caused by convection currents just the same way that colder, denser water sinks in the ocean or hot goo rises to the top of a lava lamp.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3V5PDkPF10M/story01.htm
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